The Price You Pay...

...you voluntarily enter an area of turmoil. I had been reading for weeks the promises by leftwing social in-activists (OCRAP, anarchists, etc,) to inject their form of protest, which normally goes well beyond peaceful demonstrating (as evidenced at previous G20 meetings, and made an informed decision to not put myself or my family at risk. It would appear that there are a lot of people who MUST be able to tell their Starbuck buddies that they were there so they can don their champion of the oppressed T-shirt. Get too close to the flames you will get burned.

Outrage over G20 270

By Joe Warmington ,Toronto Sun

Define Full Inquiry,,,

...will it include the failure of organizers of "the march" to control the groups that marched under their banner, will it include the actions of the anarchists, will it include protests at other G20 summits and whether there is a common thread, will it include the actions of "gawkers"  who by their presence created tension, will it include the absence of the mayor and city councilors on the streets, will it realize that video evidence seldom gives an accurate view of the circumstance, etc.

Credit where credit is due: The Toronto Star is changing the Toronto G20 narrative


I bash the Toronto Star a lot — such as I did here, here and here. But credit where credit is due: The Star is almost single-handedly re-opening the narrative on the G20 with their front-page reporting on the case of Adam Nobody.

A few weeks ago, I thought the police response to the G20 protests was yesterday’s news — and I never really re-considered the opinion I formed at the time of the event, based on what I saw with my own eyes. But no one journalist could have seen everything that happened during those protests. And it’s now clear that there was some thuggish police behavior that that went on.

The coup d’état that didn’t happen at the G20

The Ontario Ombudsman has wildly exaggerated the police abuses in Toronto last June, thus diminishing the worst civil-liberties violations in Canadian history Dec 08, 2010

I now believe that a full inquiry into the police actions at the G20 is warranted. And I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t because of the Star.

Why I’m on the fence over G20 violence